Climate Change Offers an Opportunity to Create Millions of Jobs

More than 500,000 new jobs will be created in Europe by 2050 through climate investments, the International Labour Office indicates.

Each and every sector; from manufacturing, processing, agricultural, mining and service industries depend on natural resources. Across the world, many countries have agriculturally based economies, where millions of their populations depend on resources made possible by nature for their livelihood. Climate change is resulting in the diminishing of these resources critical for the building and development of resource-based industries and further exhibiting poverty due to loss of jobs and income sources for communities.

Extreme weather events are causing work shocks that are felt when resources become scarce. The production of goods and services become more expensive, infrastructure systems are greatly damaged and a lack of market for goods furthered by job losses, loss of income and high poverty levels all result in industry shutdown. Low-income communities, particularly in developing countries, are directly dependent on natural resources and services made possible by their living environments for their livelihoods.

Over the years these communities have been custodians of nature because they recognize that their survival is heavily dependent on the ability of the earth to continue sustaining them. With regard to care and sustainable use of these resources, many families have been able to provide for their families. It has even made education access possible and highly impacted people’s quality of life.

The continuous overdependence on earth resources for economic purposes has accelerated biodiversity loss, environmental damage, soil degradation and the earth’s ability to continue producing these resources is impaired. A 2017 report by the Global Footprint Network established that the rate at which resources are exploited for economic activities is 1.7 times more than the planet’s ability to generate more naturally, this has, in turn, jeopardized livelihoods of the more than 1.6 billion people estimated to directly depend on nature for their livelihoods.

As work opportunities become limited and the devastating damage extreme weather events are causing, communities that particularly rely on agriculture are unable to fend for themselves. Longer droughts are drying up rivers and food crops, and heavy rainfall and floods are damaging their existing storage and infrastructure systems, which enables them to deliver food produce to markets, which leads to many accumulating huge losses.

Other extreme weather conditions like heat waves are creating unfavourable working conditions that are a danger to the physical and well-being of workers, whether, in an urban setting or rural setting, these conditions cannot allow someone to work on full productivity or even make it to work sites. All of this translates into massive losses in investments for all industries ranging from food, hospitality, fisheries, tourism, agriculture industry, all industries are affected whether directly or indirectly, leading to industry shutdowns, job losses and even further poverty.

Green Investments are showing a promising turn, with multiple countries showing a keen interest in leveraging the climate crisis to provide decent jobs that support the physical and social well-being of communities, projections by the International Labour Office (ILO) indicate that more than 500,000 jobs could be created in Europe alone by 2050 if investments on climate solutions that support the recovery of earth and reduces environmental damage are supported.

Climate-smart inventions have been shown to create millions of jobs, ranging from the renewable energy industry, electric mass transportation infrastructure, small scale agriculture and other adaptation interventions that would make countries more resilient to the inevitable outcomes of climate change.

Already, the growing push from climate organizations and grassroots movements has created significant public support that has initiated governments to recognize the threat climate change poses, on the security of their jobs and economic development. This has prompted different governments to scale up climate interventions by investing in green jobs. A notable example is the Green Deal by the European Union, the commission put together, 1 trillion Euros of investments to directly support sustainable green investments in both public and private sectors, that will enable the countries to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and while creating avenues for their populations to make a decent living.

Another notable example is The Green New Deal which is a public backed climate policy that seeks to compel the United States government, to scale up investments in climate-sensitive initiatives that would see one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gasses emitted, achieve a zero-carbon economy by 2030. The undertaking is projected to provide decent, unionized and protected jobs for millions of Americans particularly those from underserved and historically neglected communities.

The great green wall, an ambitious 8,000 km project that seeks to bring back to life degraded landscapes across Africa’s Sahel region, has significantly grown economic opportunities by creating jobs along the way. This has improved climate resilience for regions, strengthened food security, restored degraded land and natural assets supporting the general wellbeing of communities. Protecting jobs and providing decent livelihoods for communities across the world is necessary to spur more sustainable economic growth.

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